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What am I doing wrong"  That?s the first thing I thought as I stared down at a drawing my five-year-old daughter had created of herself. Long blond hair, blue eyes and conspicuously colourless skin, staring back at me from the page.
?Who is this"? I said.
?Me,? she said proudly.
?Why didn?t you draw yourself brown,? I asked.
She smiled mischievously, hid her face and said, ?I didn?t have the colours.?
I know this is not true. Her classroom is stocked full of crayons, markers and pencil crayons of all colours. I also know this is not the first time she?s drawn herself like this at school. The first time I saw the picture, I thought that having a conversation about it would be enough. I was wrong. This time, the drawing came neatly packaged for me, folded into a ?My first year in kindergarten? progression booklet, which was thoughtfully created as a keepsake by her teacher. Except it didn?t tell my daughter?s story?she?s Black, not colourless. The story it told me was not the one that was intended. What I saw clearly is that representation matters. 
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